Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Links

- more from US Catholic's series on people's prayer styles - More Catholics share how they pray (the first post is here). I didn't realize so many people practiced devotional prayers like adoration, the rosary, and my unfavorite, the novena, which seems a kind of magical gumball machine prayer ;)

- Bad Blood, the article written by the British journalist Will Storr about the 2006 Po-210 killing of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in London. Interesting - I've seen a number of references to the death in spy novels.

4 Comments:

I mean - what's the deal with the magic number nine? A novena is like a spell. It seems to say that if you put your penny in the gumball machine and turn the switch, the saint you're praying to is compelled to answer positively: you get your gumball. It seems a bit creepy, but maybe I'm not understanding it very well?